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I was wondering about the multimedia angle and how it would fare along with audio tracks. Probably would come like an enhanced CD, or maybe we would put it on a DVD for more data space if it got too big.

From a technical point of view that will work fine. You can burn audio tracks on a CD as well as binary data on the same disc. If you insert it into a computer you'll see the files (as well as the tracks, probably), and in a CD player it'll just play the audio. Only the very oldest CD player models might not be able to play a mixed data/music CD, but those would be over 20 years old, so don't worry about that.

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The one snag with that though is suspicion of computer viruses, though curiosity might override that.

Good point! When you insert a CD into a windows computer, you get this popup window that asks "what do you want to do with this CD? Open it as a folder/play it as audio/etc" as soon as you got that window, it means it would have executed any AUTORUN.INF file in the root folder of the CD (except for the few paranoid that disable this "feature")

That's my worry. An audio only CD is innocuous enough. Something with extra stuff might set off alarm bells and not have them open it at all.

That's my worry. An audio only CD is innocuous enough. Something with extra stuff might set off alarm bells and not have them open it at all.

's true. though you need to insert it to see there's extra stuff on. and once you do, the AUTORUN already runs (unless you disabled this default setting--like I would advise anyone to do, IIRC you can find it in that long-ass list of checkboxes in your File Exporer menu Extra > Folder Options, but I could be wrong I'm not in Windows right now to check)

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Question is, what do we want that AUTORUN file to do?

You're the computer guy, you tell me.

I disavow all knowledge of said CD if that is how we go, btw.

Hehehehehe I was (sort of) kidding, of course.

However, there's one fairly innocent thing it can do, such as automatically opening a webpage, in order to measure the success of the outcome.

I would but my pronounciation is sucky, which will only make for a weirder video when you think about it, but also my voice is really annoying.

I hear that, but it might be cool to have someone with a strong Bulgarian accent on it. A little jarring for American ears. On the other hand, you could make a Bulgarian version of it and translate the content and narrate it yourself.

I would but my pronounciation is sucky, which will only make for a weirder video when you think about it, but also my voice is really annoying.

I hear that, but it might be cool to have someone with a strong Bulgarian accent on it. A little jarring for American ears. On the other hand, you could make a Bulgarian version of it and translate the content and narrate it yourself.

Subtitles.

Also, if including the PDFs, et al, I propose an audio track explaining all the contents in a spoof of Mission Impossible's briefing tapes. "You're mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to blah blah...", "This message will self destruct if ejected...", et cetera. what would be even cooler (Looking at you, 000) is if the message audio file could also become inaccessible if ejected.

Also, if including the PDFs, et al, I propose an audio track explaining all the contents in a spoof of Mission Impossible's briefing tapes. "You're mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to blah blah...", "This message will self destruct if ejected...", et cetera. what would be even cooler (Looking at you, 000) is if the message audio file could also become inaccessible if ejected.

that's kind of hard to do, as far as erasing the tracks goes, it's a write-once medium, so you'd need to physically damage the CD.

while there might be some crazy hack that could fuck up a CD when it's in the drive, I don't know it, and if it's possible it might damage the drive itself, too

Also, if including the PDFs, et al, I propose an audio track explaining all the contents in a spoof of Mission Impossible's briefing tapes. "You're mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to blah blah...", "This message will self destruct if ejected...", et cetera. what would be even cooler (Looking at you, 000) is if the message audio file could also become inaccessible if ejected.

that's kind of hard to do, as far as erasing the tracks goes, it's a write-once medium, so you'd need to physically damage the CD.

while there might be some crazy hack that could fuck up a CD when it's in the drive, I don't know it, and if it's possible it might damage the drive itself, too

[tangent]I remember reading in the anarchist's cookbook long ago that you could glue crushed up match heads to the disk in the old floppys, which would ignite if used. I never tried it out.[/tangent]

would it be possible if we used a CD-RW? or to make an autorun file that changes the file extension after it's played, making it inaccessible?